Catalogue information
Edo period, 17th century
Three handscrolls; ink, color, and gold on paper
Scroll i: six sections of text and five paintings 42.1 x 1034.1 cm (16 1/2 in. x 33 ft. 11 1/8 in.)
Scroll ii: four sections of text and paintings 42.1 x 1165.5 cm (16 1/2 x 38 ft. 2 7/8 in.)
Scroll iii (detail, above): five sections of painting and text 42.1 x 1057.8 cm (16 5/8 in. x 34 ft. 8 1/2 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Tsuji Eiko 1999.
1999
Zaigai Nihon emaki no kenkyū to shiryō (Japanese illustrated handscrolls abroad: Study and records). Kasama sōsho (Kasama series), 328. Tokyo: Kasama Shoin.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 58 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.